THE BEAST

Former OVERKILL and ANVIL guitarist Sebastian Marino has passed away at the age of 57.

Tragically, Sebastian ‘s friend Bruce Pilato reported that Marino was taken to a medical center and succumbed in the early morning of January 1st while undertaking sound job for New Year’s Eve in Florida.

Sebastian was featured on ANVIL ‘s 1991 album Worth The Weight as well as three OVERKILL albums in the 90s: The Killing Kind (1996), From The Underground And Below (1997) and Necroshine (1999).

ANVIL  frontman  Steve “Lips” Kudlow  tweeted: “Condolences to my friend  Sebastian Marino ‘s family and friends.  Seby  was a dear friend and I will miss him profoundly!!  Worth The Weight  was an extremely special  ANVIL  album and it will keep  Seby  alive through our history forever! RIP SEBASTIAN MARINO”.

Pilato shared in his post that Sebastian owned and operated AUDIO IMAGES, one of the most renowned audio and video production firms nationwide.

Bruce added: “He and I go back to the 1980s and in the mid 1990s we worked together with  Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire , which featured his first wife. It was  Sebastian  who I approached for a road crew when I first started working with  Carl Palmer  in 2005.  Sebastian  essentially brought a slew of top quality production people who made up the road crews of  Carl Palmer ‘s band;  ASIA ;  YES  and other platinum level acts around the globe.

“A brilliant musician in his own right (he played guitar for  OVERKILL  and  ANVIL  among others)- he was like a best friend to any working musician or road tech’s who interacted with him. He always treated them fairly and often working for less than he should have just so the music could survive.”

“ Sebastian … you were a diamond whose legacy will shine on forever. RIP, pal.”

Via Metaladdicts